Tracy Lai
As Real As It Gets
What two students learned from their experience interning at a labor union. The following are their reflections.
He Li
He Li recently graduated from the University of Washington. He had an APALA fellowship which...
Cambodian Women Work For a Sweat-Free Policy
Left to right: Morm Nhim, Ken Chheng Lang, State Senator Steve Conway, Phouk Hoeung, Rithy Morm. The women represent textile, building trades and hotel/tourism unions, as well as the Cambodia Women’s Movement Organization.
On July...
The Fall of the I-Hotel
“Fight for the International Hotel; It is a Right to Rebel Against Eviction” declares a vivid, multi-lingual silk-screened poster produced by the San Francisco Poster Brigade in 1977.
That same summer, on August...
Workers Scapegoated in Wisconsin and Ohio
In recent months, democracy movements in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya have captivated our interest. Closer to home, we’re also paying attention to Wisconsin and Ohio and other states where public employees and their...
‘It is not enough that Marcos has been removed’
“It is not enough that Marcos has been removed,” declares Father Orlando Tizon, known as Dong to his friends. The legacy left by Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, he says, remains intact: poverty for 84 percent of the population, a powerful military and landowner elite, and domination by multinational companies.
